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Sorry, I had to chuckle at it.

I think the idea of having a border you can walk across for better shopping is great. Similar to sandanski where several people I know go shopping in Greece, especially for the bread (good in Gr, appalling in BG)

keep to the Fen Causeway

by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Thu Jul 31st, 2008 at 10:28:33 AM EST
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And if I lived within walking distance of germany I'd shop there for bread all the time.

keep to the Fen Causeway
by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Thu Jul 31st, 2008 at 10:29:13 AM EST
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Well, the bread is not something I need to go to Germany, I have a great backery nearby and I do not eat much bread.
by Fran (fran at eurotrib dot com) on Thu Jul 31st, 2008 at 10:31:33 AM EST
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At present walking from Great Britain to cross a national border presents some practical difficulties.

We would either need to wait for the next Ice Age, to make the Channel and North Sea dry land, or for the United Kingdom to break up.

by Gary J on Thu Jul 31st, 2008 at 10:35:47 AM EST
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Or learn to walk on water. :-)
by Fran (fran at eurotrib dot com) on Thu Jul 31st, 2008 at 10:38:54 AM EST
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<waves from Dublin>

 Or was there an annexation I missed? I've been busy the last few weeks.

by Colman (colman at eurotrib.com) on Thu Jul 31st, 2008 at 11:08:03 AM EST
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The existence of a land frontier to the Republic of Ireland was why I specified Great Britain rather than the United Kingdom, in my original post.
by Gary J on Thu Jul 31st, 2008 at 11:11:15 AM EST
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Not a geographic designation that's very popular around here ...
by Colman (colman at eurotrib.com) on Thu Jul 31st, 2008 at 11:17:32 AM EST
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I am not sure what the objection is.

I appreciate that British Isles is a geographical term that is disapproved of by many Irish people (although British and Irish Isles is a rather clumsy term to describe the whole group).

As I understand it the largest island in the Isles is properly called Great Britain (at least as a political unit), although possibly just Britain as a geographic term.

All I can say is my geography teacher (35 or so years ago) took the view that England and Wales were Britain and England, Wales and Scotland were Great Britain.

by Gary J on Mon Aug 4th, 2008 at 10:07:57 AM EST
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